NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- When a Texas defender feels a little too sorry for himself, Will Muschamp points to the shadowbox he keeps in his office. Inside, mounted on a piece of felt, rests a 17-inch steel rod. The Texas defensive coordinator then tells the story of how the rod came to live, for a year, inside the right leg of a boy in Rome, Ga., with two broken bones and an apparently broken dream.